Maxine E. Calle , Renee S. Hoekzema , Laura Murray , Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj , Carmen Rovi , Shruthi Sridhar-Shapiro
{"title":"Nested cobordisms, Cyl-objects and Temperley-Lieb algebras","authors":"Maxine E. Calle , Renee S. Hoekzema , Laura Murray , Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj , Carmen Rovi , Shruthi Sridhar-Shapiro","doi":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109448","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109448","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We introduce a discrete cobordism category for nested manifolds and nested cobordisms between them. A variation of stratified Morse theory applies in this case, and yields generators for a general nested cobordism category. Restricting to a low-dimensional example of the “striped cylinder” cobordism category Cyl, we give a complete set of relations for the generators. With an eye towards the study of TQFTs defined on a nested cobordism category, we describe functors <span><math><mrow><mi>Cyl</mi></mrow><mo>→</mo><mi>C</mi></math></span>, which we call Cyl-objects in <span><math><mi>C</mi></math></span>, and show that they are related to known algebraic structures such as Temperley-Lieb algebras and cyclic objects. We moreover define novel algebraic constructions inspired by the structure of Cyl-objects, namely a doubling construction on cyclic objects analogous to edgewise subdivision, and a cylindrical bar construction on self-dual objects in a monoidal category.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51201,"journal":{"name":"Topology and its Applications","volume":"376 ","pages":"Article 109448"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145183855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julia E. Bergner , Olivia Borghi , Pinka Dey , Imma Gálvez-Carrillo , Teresa Hoekstra-Mendoza
{"title":"2-Segal sets from cuts of rooted trees","authors":"Julia E. Bergner , Olivia Borghi , Pinka Dey , Imma Gálvez-Carrillo , Teresa Hoekstra-Mendoza","doi":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109447","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109447","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The theory of 2-Segal sets has connections to various important constructions such as the Waldhausen <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>S</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>•</mo></mrow></msub></math></span>-construction in algebraic <em>K</em>-theory, Hall algebras, and (co)operads. In this paper, we construct 2-Segal sets from rooted trees and explore how these applications are illustrated by this example.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51201,"journal":{"name":"Topology and its Applications","volume":"376 ","pages":"Article 109447"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145183853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New family of hyperbolic knots whose Upsilon invariants are convex","authors":"Keisuke Himeno","doi":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109441","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109441","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Upsilon invariant of a knot is a concordance invariant derived from knot Floer homology theory. It is a piecewise linear continuous function defined on the interval <span><math><mo>[</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>]</mo></math></span>. Borodzik and Hedden gave a question asking for which knots the Upsilon invariant is a convex function. It is known that the Upsilon invariant of any <em>L</em>-space knot, and a Floer thin knot after taking its mirror image, if necessary, as well, is convex. Also, we can make infinitely many knots whose Upsilon invariants are convex by the connected sum operation. In this paper, we construct hyperbolic knots with convex Upsilon invariants which are none of the above. To calculate the full knot Floer complex, we make use of a combinatorial method for <span><math><mo>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span>-knots.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51201,"journal":{"name":"Topology and its Applications","volume":"373 ","pages":"Article 109441"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144196486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristen Mazur , Angélica M. Osorno , Constanze Roitzheim , Rekha Santhanam , Danika Van Niel , Valentina Zapata Castro
{"title":"Uniquely compatible transfer systems for cyclic groups of order prqs","authors":"Kristen Mazur , Angélica M. Osorno , Constanze Roitzheim , Rekha Santhanam , Danika Van Niel , Valentina Zapata Castro","doi":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109443","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109443","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bi-incomplete Tambara functors over a group <em>G</em> can be understood in terms of compatible pairs of <em>G</em>-transfer systems. In the case of <span><math><mi>G</mi><mo>=</mo><msub><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><msup><mrow><mi>p</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msup></mrow></msub></math></span><span>, Hill, Meng and Li gave a necessary and sufficient condition for compatibility and computed the exact number of compatible pairs. In this article, we study compatible pairs of </span><em>G</em>-transfer systems for the case <span><math><mi>G</mi><mo>=</mo><msub><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><msup><mrow><mi>p</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>r</mi></mrow></msup><msup><mrow><mi>q</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>s</mi></mrow></msup></mrow></msub></math></span> and identify conditions when such transfer systems are uniquely compatible in the sense that they only form trivially compatible pairs. This gives us new insight into collections of norm maps that are relevant in equivariant homotopy theory.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51201,"journal":{"name":"Topology and its Applications","volume":"376 ","pages":"Article 109443"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145183875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterization of the OU matrix of a braid diagram","authors":"Ayaka Shimizu , Yoshiro Yaguchi","doi":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109440","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109440","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The OU matrix of a braid diagram is a square matrix that represents the number of over/under crossings of each pair of strands. In this paper, the OU matrix of a pure braid diagram is characterized for up to 5 strands. As an application, the crossing matrix of a positive pure braid is also characterized for up to 5 strands. Moreover, a standard form of the OU matrix is given and characterized for general braids of up to 5 strands.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51201,"journal":{"name":"Topology and its Applications","volume":"373 ","pages":"Article 109440"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144170288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Marie Bohmann , Teena Gerhardt , Cameron Krulewski , Sarah Petersen , Lucy Yang
{"title":"Equivariant Witt complexes and twisted topological Hochschild homology","authors":"Anna Marie Bohmann , Teena Gerhardt , Cameron Krulewski , Sarah Petersen , Lucy Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109444","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109444","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The topological Hochschild homology of a ring (or ring spectrum) <em>R</em> is an <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>S</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>-spectrum, and the fixed points of <span><math><mi>THH</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>R</mi></math></span>) for subgroups <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub><mo>⊂</mo><msup><mrow><mi>S</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></math></span> have been widely studied due to their use in algebraic <em>K</em>-theory computations. Hesselholt and Madsen proved that the fixed points of topological Hochschild homology are closely related to Witt vectors <span><span>[26]</span></span>. Further, they defined the notion of a Witt complex, and showed that it captures the algebraic structure of the homotopy groups of the fixed points of THH <span><span>[28]</span></span>. Recent work <span><span>[3]</span></span> defines a theory of twisted topological Hochschild homology for equivariant rings (or ring spectra) that builds upon Hill, Hopkins and Ravenel's work on equivariant norms <span><span>[30]</span></span>. In this paper, we study the algebraic structure of the equivariant homotopy groups of twisted THH. In particular, drawing on the definition of equivariant Witt vectors in <span><span>[8]</span></span>, we define an <em>equivariant Witt complex</em> and prove that the equivariant homotopy of twisted THH has this structure. Our definition of equivariant Witt complexes contributes to a growing body of research in the subject of equivariant algebra.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51201,"journal":{"name":"Topology and its Applications","volume":"376 ","pages":"Article 109444"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145183876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sanjana Agarwal , Jelena Grbić , Michele Intermont , Milica Jovanović , Evgeniya Lagoda , Sarah Whitehouse
{"title":"Steenrod operations on polyhedral products","authors":"Sanjana Agarwal , Jelena Grbić , Michele Intermont , Milica Jovanović , Evgeniya Lagoda , Sarah Whitehouse","doi":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109446","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109446","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We describe the action of the mod 2 Steenrod algebra on the cohomology of various polyhedral products and related spaces. We carry this out for Davis-Januszkiewicz spaces and their generalizations, for moment-angle complexes as well as for certain polyhedral joins. By studying the combinatorics of underlying simplicial complexes, we deduce some consequences for the lowest cohomological dimension in which non-trivial Steenrod operations can appear.</div><div>We present a version of cochain-level formulas for Steenrod operations on simplicial complexes. We explain the idea of “propagating” such formulas from a simplicial complex <em>K</em> to polyhedral joins over <em>K</em> and we give examples of this process. We tie the propagation of the Steenrod algebra actions on polyhedral joins to those on moment-angle complexes. Although these are cases where one can understand the Steenrod action via a stable homotopy decomposition, we anticipate applying this method to cases where there is no such decomposition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51201,"journal":{"name":"Topology and its Applications","volume":"376 ","pages":"Article 109446"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145183851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combinatorial structures of the space of Hamiltonian vector fields on compact surfaces","authors":"Tomoo Yokoyama","doi":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109439","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109439","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the time evolution of fluids, the topologies of fluids can be changed by the creations and annihilations of singular points and by switching combinatorial structures of separatrices. In this paper, we construct foundations of descriptions of the time evaluations of fluid phenomena (e.g. Euler equations, Navier-Stokes equations). In particular, we study the combinatorial structure of the “moduli space” of Hamiltonian vector fields. In fact, under the conditions of the non-existence of creations and annihilations of singular points, the space of topological equivalence classes of such Hamiltonian vector fields on compact surfaces has non-contractible connected components and is a disjoint union of finite abstract cell complexes such that the codimension of a cell corresponds to the instability of a Hamiltonian vector field by using combinatorics and simple homotopy theory.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51201,"journal":{"name":"Topology and its Applications","volume":"373 ","pages":"Article 109439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144189406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Irina Bobkova , Andrea Lachmann , Ang Li , Alicia Lima , Vesna Stojanoska , Adela YiYu Zhang
{"title":"Bounding the K(p − 1)-local exotic Picard group at p > 3","authors":"Irina Bobkova , Andrea Lachmann , Ang Li , Alicia Lima , Vesna Stojanoska , Adela YiYu Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109445","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109445","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we bound the descent filtration of the exotic Picard group <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>κ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>, for a prime number <span><math><mi>p</mi><mo>></mo><mn>3</mn></math></span> and <span><math><mi>n</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>p</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn></math></span>. Our method involves a detailed comparison of the Picard spectral sequence, the homotopy fixed point spectral sequence, and an auxiliary <em>β</em>-inverted homotopy fixed point spectral sequence whose input is the Farrell-Tate cohomology of the Morava stabilizer group. Along the way, we deduce that the <span><math><mi>K</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>-local Adams-Novikov spectral sequence for the sphere has a horizontal vanishing line at <span><math><mn>3</mn><msup><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></math></span> on the <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>E</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn><msup><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup><mo>+</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span>-page.</div><div>The same analysis also allows us to express the exotic Picard group of <span><math><mi>K</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>-local modules over the homotopy fixed points spectrum <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>E</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>h</mi><mi>N</mi></mrow></msubsup></math></span>, where <em>N</em> is the normalizer in <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>G</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> of a finite cyclic subgroup of order <em>p</em>, as a subquotient of a single continuous cohomology group <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>H</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn><mi>n</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup><mo>(</mo><mi>N</mi><mo>,</mo><msub><mrow><mi>π</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub><msub><mrow><mi>E</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo></math></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51201,"journal":{"name":"Topology and its Applications","volume":"376 ","pages":"Article 109445"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145183854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A prop structure on partitions","authors":"Coline Emprin , Dana Hunter , Muriel Livernet , Christine Vespa , Inna Zakharevich","doi":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109442","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109442","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Motivated by its link with functor homology, we study the prop freely generated by the operadic suspension of the operad <em>Com</em><span>. We exhibit a particular family of generators, for which the composition and the symmetric group actions admit simple descriptions. We highlight associated subcategories of its Karoubi envelope which allows us to compute extensions groups between simple functors from free groups. We construct a particular prop structure on partitions whose composition corresponds to the Yoneda product of extensions between exterior power functors.</span></div></div>","PeriodicalId":51201,"journal":{"name":"Topology and its Applications","volume":"376 ","pages":"Article 109442"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145183651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}